Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v2 Product Family

Virtualization performance benchmarks

The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v2 product family is at the heart of an agile and efficient data center that meets your diverse needs. These engineering marvels are designed to deliver the best combination of performance, energy efficiency, integrated workload optimizations, and cost-effectiveness. Whether you are improving agility through virtualization, running cloud-based services, or running high-performance computing applications, such as design automation and real-time financial transactions, you’ll be delighted by better than ever performance and energy efficiency. New virtualizatyion and security features work together to deliver a more trusted compute environment. You will be able to harness big data and deliver new services with deeper insights, enabled by Intel® Integrated I/O, which helps you to eliminate data bottlenecks across the platform. The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v2 product family—versatile processors at the heart of today’s data center.

Virtualized Server Consolidation Performance using VMmark* v2.5

VMmark* is a free tool that hardware vendors, virtualization software vendors, and other organizations use to measure the performance and scalability of applications running in virtualized environments. VMmark 2.x measures the performance of multi-host virtual environments and is designed as a tile-based benchmark consisting of a diverse set of workloads commonly found in the data center. The virtual machine configurations and the software stacks inside the virtual machines are fixed as part of the benchmark specification and is meant to be representative of a general-purpose virtualization environment. VMmark 2.5 adds increased parallelism, additional client support, support for vSphere* 5.1, support for short runs, and enhanced messaging.

VMmark enables users to:

Measure virtual data center performance accurately and reliably

View and compare the performance of different hardware and virtualization platforms